All Rita Dove Quotes
When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
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It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
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I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.
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